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Comparison between plasma neopterin and the urine neopterin:creatinine ratio as inflammatory biomarkers

BACKGROUND: Neopterin, a product of cell-mediated immunity, is a non-specific biomarker of inflammation. Plasma/serum is generally the body fluid of choice for neopterin assessment, but urine is often used as it does away with venepuncture. Analysis of urine neopterin is based on collection of a sin...

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Autores principales: Thomas, Bianca, Bipath, Priyesh, Viljoen, Margaretha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Makerere Medical School 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32127811
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v19i3.14